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Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Reading comprehension is a complex endeavor. It’s heavily dependent on learning new ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. That’s a topic of ...

What barriers do students face when asked to read text and show their comprehension of it? This question was posed by an English/language arts teacher and educational consultant to a group of ...

When asked what I’m studying, I normally shrug and noncommittally say “English.” I want to make it clear that I’m aware it’s ...

For many adults, reading is a fact of life often taken for granted. For them, there’s usually a great distance between ...